Dublin Lyrics

Dublin - Prefab Sprout
Prefab Sprout
Dublin (1985, released 1989)
(McAloon)
From: "Protest Songs"
This beauty has interesting chords thus creating a special texture.
It is mostly picked.
It is not easy to find out what is played and even though I think I got
close, there are parts where I'm not sure at all. Especially the section
I tabbed out below doesn't not seem elegant enough to me. Suggestions
for corrections are highly welcome!
I don't really know the names of some of the chords. But I didn't want to
just "number" them, so I tried to name them anyway. Whoever knows more,
please comment!
VERSE (last line)
CHORDS/SPECIAL VOICINGS
(alphabetically)
E-A-D-G-B-E (half-step down)
D/F# 2-x-4-2-3-x
The (A) indicates a single note
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Who does not adore the sound
Of music in the names of towns
To build a city on such picturesque ground
That takes some sort of flair
We draw a line the ink is fear
You stay that side we'll stay here
It's far harder to keep it up
Than to tear it down
Does it take you back to the kind of world
Hindsight calls the good old days?
Now that there's no room in an Einstein world
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For simple cause and effect
Dub----lin Du---blin
Home of pretty Co----leens
Dub----lin Du---blin
Nurse of such bit-ter dreams
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Behind the soft and peachy skin
Where D.N.A. or God begin
Where sub-Gaelic rot sets in
With stories from your mother
In myths and less exalted forms
The heady cocktail glory is born
You know it's not a bottled storm
m13 /13
So why do you indulge it?
Dub----lin Du---blin
Home of pretty Co----leens
Dub----lin Du---blin
Nurse of such bit-ter dreams
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That's what my mother told me
When I was about knee-high
That's what my mother told me
When I was about knee-high
That's what my mother told me
When I was about knee-high
That's what my mother told me